Open-Source evangelist. Boycotts large corpos. Free speech absolutist (very unpopular around here, I know).

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  • Intermingling PHP and HTML is one of PHP strengths

    Eeeh, no. It’s a bad practice in 2025. That was a good thing a decade ago.

    Trying to modify this blocked CSS is going to be wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy easier than trying to modify a bunch of printed HTML strings broken up by multiple nested conditionals. Plus it’s just straight-up easier to read and straight-forward to understand what the function does right away.

    True. But I was just looking at the source code of wordpress for 30 seconds. I could probably find worse.

    To harp on this even more, one of the benefits of blocking HTML in this way is IDE highlighting.

    Which isn’t a problem if you use a template engine - as you should in modern applications.

    I can’t think of a single system that doesn’t “stop PHP executing” at some point to output HTML in some way.

    Not a single modern system does that. It’s terrible practice and won’t even pass automated code reviews with sane settings.



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    9 days ago

    but oh man in a much better, cleaner, and more sparingly way

    I don’t think we’re looking at the same source code. The first thing I see in wp-activate.php:

    function wpmu_activate_stylesheet() {
    	?>
    	<style type="text/css">
    		.wp-activate-container { width: 90%; margin: 0 auto; }
    		.wp-activate-container form { margin-top: 2em; }
    		#submit, #key { width: 100%; font-size: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; }
    		#language { margin-top: 0.5em; }
    		.wp-activate-container .error { background: #f66; color: #333; }
    		span.h3 { padding: 0 8px; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: 600; }
    	</style>
    	<?php
    }
    

    This isn’t better nor cleaner. This is a disaster. A function that stops PHP execution halfway-through, outputs some text and then restarts PHP execution? Hell, I’ve been in the PHP ecosystem for over a decade now and I didn’t even know this was possible and I wish that knowledge was still hidden from me.

    Maybe I was wrong by saying that the 4chan source code is better than wordpress, fair. Maybe I should just say both are abominations, I will not judge which one is better and both should be discarded and forgotten.







  • Oh I wouldn’t. The Dodge Ram would most likely serve as an excellent vehicle for transporting stuff. I’d do it as in project zomboid - drive the car to the border of the city, loot, bring loot back to the car, rinse and repeat until the car is full, then it goes back to base.

    On top of that, the dodge ram has significantly more horsepower and can waltz through small and medium-sized zombie hordes without slowing down too much.






  • Not sure where you’re from, but in germany and austria, christians are definitely doing good. Churches here have a lot of support networks for everyone, especially elderly and people in need. In germany, we also have the “diakonie”, a service of the … protestant church? (idk how to translate that properly into english, the opposites of catholics here lmao), which is a major part of elderly care. And in many villages or smaller cities, the churches are open during the night for the homeless to take shelter, if they want to.

    While I’m really not a big fan of religions in general, I feel like it’s unfair to claim that christians don’t do anything for society at large. At least from my european perspective.



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    21 days ago

    Not sure if I’d agree here. I think that used properly, AI definitely has great use-cases, especially in areas of science, like medicine.

    As with any new “invention”, there is the tech-bros that jump at it first chance they get and try to push it into anything. We had that with blockchain, we had that with crypto, we had it with web3 and now we have it with AI.

    The tech isn’t bad at all, it’s actually extremely useful, but the use-cases it’s put to work at aren’t.